This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?

I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.

And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?